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Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2021 Mangaba (Hancornia speciosa) is a native fruit tree of Brazil and of great importance as an alternative source of income and subsistence for many rural communities of the Northeast region.
Kívia Soares de Oliveira +1 more
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Local Knowledge and Conservation Priorities of Medicinal Plants near a Protected Area in Brazil
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019 We investigated the influence of socioeconomic factors (age, gender, and occupation) on the local knowledge of medicinal plants in the Araripe National Forest, Brazil, and the priority of conservation of the species as perceived by people. Additionally, priority species for in situ conservation were identified by calculating conservation priority (CP).
Noelia Ferreira da Silva +6 more
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Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, Volume 2018, Issue 1, 2018., 2018 Hancornia speciosa Gomes is a fruit tree, commonly known as the mangaba tree, which is widespread throughout Brazil. The leaves of this plant are used in traditional medicine for medicinal purposes. Thus, the objective of this study was to perform a physicochemical characterization, identify the lipophilic antioxidants and fatty acids, and determine ...
Uilson Pereira dos Santos +6 more
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Selection of Hancornia speciosa germplasm accessions based on the FAI-BLUP index
Pesquisa Agropecuária Tropical, 2021 Hancornia speciosa Gomes is one of the native fruit species most frequent in the Brazilian Savanna. Studies on the genetic variability of quantitative traits for this species are scarce and the identification of accessions with the best ...
Gabriella Queiroz de Almeida +4 more
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Bioscience Journal, 2015 Considering the wide distribution of Hancornia speciosa Gomes in the Brazilian savanna, environment with irregular distribution of rainfall, it is believed that their seedlings can be cultivated for a few days under water restriction, information that ...
Silvana de Paula Quintão Scalon +4 more
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Cadernos Gestão Pública e CidadaniaEste Fórum dos Cadernos de Gestão Pública e Cidadania (CGPC) tem o objetivo de reconhecer as contribuições, a trajetória, os impactos e homenagear o professor Doutor Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, estimulando a discussão sobre sua obra, em função de seu ...
Carmen Augusta Varela +3 more
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Atores, canais de comercialização e consumo da mangaba no nordeste brasileiro
Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural, 2008 O objetivo deste artigo é analisar processos que vão do extrativismo ao consumo da mangaba, enfatizando os diferentes atores em cena, as suas relações, os canais de comercialização e as características do consumo.
Dalva Maria da Mota +2 more
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Medicinal Plants from Northeastern Brazil against Alzheimer’s Disease
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017 Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has been linked with oxidative stress, acetylcholine deficiency in the brain, and inflammatory processes. In the northeast region of Brazil, various plants are used to treat several diseases associated with these processes; then an antioxidant test was performed with those plants in a previous work and twelve species with ...
Alexandre Batista Penido +7 more
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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017 The present objective of the investigation is to evaluate the antihypercholesterolemic activity of the aqueous fruit pulp extract (APE) of Copernicia prunifera (Miller) H. E. Moore (Arecaceae family). Various chemical characterization methods like thin layer chromatography, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, 1H and 13C NMR, and molecular weight ...
Raquel Teixeira Terceiro Paim +10 more
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Callogenesis and Morphohistological Characterization of Hancornia speciosa Gomes
Colombia Forestal, 2023 Hancornia speciosa Gomes belongs to the family Apocynaceae and is distributed across different regions of Brazil. The objective of this study was to evaluate callus induction and histodifferentiation in five mangaba accessions under different in vitro ...
Ana da Silva Ledo +5 more
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